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190 OF READING THE SCRIPTURES." Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, if!Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hastbegun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shaltsurely fall before him." The world is not wide enough tocontain both the Bible and the Pope. Each claims an undividedempire. To suppose that the two can live togetherat Rome, is to suppose an impossibility. The entrance ofthe one is the expulsion of the other. To Popery a singleBible is more dreadful than an army of ten thousand strong.Let IT enter, and, as Dagon fell before the ark of old, sosurely shall tliemighty Dagon which has sat enthroned solong upon the Seven Hills fall prostrate and be utterlybroken.Unseal this blessed page to the nations, and farewellto the inventions and the frauds, to the authority andthe grandeur, of Rome. This is the catastrophe she alreadyapprehends. And therefore, when she meets the Bible inher path, she is startled, and exclaims in terror, " I knowthee, whom thou art :the timerart thou come to torment me before